Posted on 05/15/2006 5:14:48 PM PDT by Leisler
Globalism is on the way and here to stay!
So who version do you want the Humanist/Relativity?
or the Under God version?
If you vote for a 3rd party you are guaranting that the Humnaist win!
If I recall, he said they 'will have to wait their turn', and I'm pretty sure that's right.
Then Tancredo must have changed his tune or something. I heard some initial comments and he seemed to react favorably to it. Oh well. You can't expect everything all at once. That's not how the world works. This speach Bush gave is far and away better than his position the past six years on the border. I don't know how anyone can argue otherwise.
Here it is from above;
"People who meet these conditions should be able to apply for citizenship – but approval would not be automatic, and they will have to wait in line behind those who played by the rules and followed the law."
Haven't heard from that lardass in quite a while.
OK, you lost me... who's the lardass?
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The Pew foundation published a report a year or so ago that stated if the border was fully relaxed, 70 million people would come here to work. The Mexican citizens who come here to work and for our social benefits, send their earnings back to Mexico, which harms our domestic economy severely.
Like I said, talking through both sides of his mouth.
Who does this clown think he's fooling?
An amnesty is an amnesty, no matter how you spin it. And what this will do is increase pressure on the border, no matter what we throw in their way.
What he should have said:
I am the President of the United States, a sovereign nation of laws, and even though we are a nation of immigrants they must abide by our laws to enter this country. It is an affront to everyone who entered legally and those waiting patiently to enter legally to legitimize those who cut in line before them.
Therefore, I am giving all illegal immigrants currently residing in the United States 90 days to leave the country without penalty. Those who remain and are caught and detained by Homeland Security will not be allowed to apply legally to immigrate to this country.
After this 90 day period, we will be conducting sweeps of all day laborers in conjunction with local law enforcement and all will be immediately deported and fingerprinted. Businesses will be randomly searched for employment of illegal aliens and if any are found there will be a $100,000 fine per illegal and the president of the business will be jailed for a period of no less than a year.
All illegals currently in our prison system (25% of all federal Prisoners are illegal aliens), will be immediately deported to their home countries.
Our legal immigration number will be reduced to 350,000 per year to reduce population overgrowth and stabilize our population at around 300 million people. Chain immigration will no longer be allowed. There will be a percentage of legal immigration geared towards those with needed skills in the sciences, medical profession, etc.
The border will be secured with a double wall and an increase in border agents by 5,000 agents.
I will also introduce legislation declaring English to be the official language of the United States. We are a nation made up of hundreds of different nationalities and ethnicities. A common language is one of the most important things that binds us together as one nation. As Teddy Roosevelt once said:
"In the first place, we should insist that if the immigrant
who comes here in good faith, becomes an American and assimilates himself
to us, he shall be treated on an exact equality with everyone else for it
is an outrage to discriminate against any such man be cause of creed, or
birthplace, or origin. But this is predicated upon the person's becoming
in every facet an American, and nothing but an American...
There can be no
divided allegiance here. Any man who says he is an American, but something
else also, isn't an American at all. We have room for but one flag, the
American flag... We have room for but one language here, and that is the
English language... and we have room for but one sole loyalty and that is a
loyalty to the American people."
Theodore Roosevelt 1907
It is with this sense of a common goal to live free and succeed in a fair and honorable society that I bring these proposals to the American people. No longer can we tolerate the legitimization of rampant illegality that is undermining our storied immigration system. The war against terror also demands that our borders be secure. Although I can understand what has driven these illegal immigrants to endure hardship and danger in order to enter this country for work to provide for their children, it is more important to remember that there are Americans who also need to provide for their children, and legal immigrants who entered this country through the proper legal channels and their needs must come first.
To those illegal immigrants who must now go home and I say to them to show the same passion they showed during street protests here in the US and take to the streets in Mexico and Central America to show the Governments in their own countries that they want to be given the chance to work for a decent wage and to be able to educate their children so that they may have a better life and the chance to increase their countries economic and living conditions.
The United States remains committed to immigration as the greatest asset we have in ensuring the economic vitality of this country far into the future, and that which sustains us, enhances our culture, and brings bright minds and fertile imaginations into our society to keep it fresh and innovative.
All we ask, and now demand, is that those who choose to immigrate to this great country do so the right way, legally.
Good night.
A law-abiding illegal immigrant is a contradiction in terms.
Not to toot one's own horn or anything, but I think I may use that in a signature quote.
I totally agree. Snow will prove what a great asset he is with the firestorm after this speach. He will do a great job getting the truth of it hammered out to the American people, and not allow the media to twist, subvert, and flat out lie about what Bush actually said.
FM
I don't see any difference in his stance other than he said he was actually going to use his executive power to put some NG on the border. Something he could have done on 9/12/01. He also could have put 4,000 new BP agents in the field since the National Security Act of '04 but he only approved 150 that I know of. Limbaugh said 1,500 today but even so that doesn't cover attrition rates. At any rate; he could have and still hasn't.
The speach was excellent and he only muffed one sentence . . .
Michael Moore
Well, I've been wondering if some people heard the speach before they started commenting negatively about it.
First off, don't bother replying if you are going to selectively snip, please. It is insulting.
Second, that is indeeed cost prohibitive. Rounding up the ones that are here now and sending em back is money thrown down the drain. Put that money into a border fence and a vastly increased Border Patrol, and take away the aforementioned spigot of benefits that illegals get, and that is a much more effective way to address this.
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